Body Heat(1981)

Combined Rating:
68
Combined Critics Rating: 62

In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.



Nighthawks(1981)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 43

Conservative street cop DaSilva reluctantly agrees to terminate an international terrorist who has demanded media attention. But DaSilva's "at-home" tactics are very much put to the challenge.



Thief(1981)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 39

Coming closer to his dream of leading a normal life, a professional safecracker agrees to do a job for the Mafia, who have other plans for him.



Ms .45(1981)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 50

A timid and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day, in which she takes to the streets of New York City after dark and randomly shoots men with a .45 caliber pistol.



Sharky's Machine(1981)

Combined Rating:
42
Combined Critics Rating: 44

Tom Sharky is demoted to vice after a bust goes terribly wrong. He and his team stumble across a mob murder tied to prostitution and government.



Outland(1981)

Combined Rating:
37
Combined Critics Rating: 17

In the distant future, a police marshal stationed at a remote mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy, and gets no help from the populace when he later finds himself marked for murder.



Nice Dreams(1981)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Disguised as ice cream vendors, Cheech and Chong make--and subsequently lose--millions of dollars selling a batch of marijuana with an unusual side effect.



The Great Muppet Caper(1981)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.



Prince of the City(1981)

Combined Rating:
26
Combined Critics Rating: 16

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.



The Postman Always Rings Twice(1981)

Combined Rating:
24
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.



True Confessions(1981)

Combined Rating:
23
Combined Critics Rating: 11

A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.



Cutter's Way(1981)

Combined Rating:
22
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.



Le professionnel(1981)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Victim of a plot which has resulted in his imprisonment in a Central African jail for two years, a French secret agent arrives in Paris to settle accounts.



Fort Apache the Bronx(1981)

Combined Rating:
20
Combined Critics Rating: 10

In New York, South Bronx's main police precinct is nicknamed Fort Apache by its employees who feel like troopers surrounded by hostiles in a wild west isolated outpost.



Death Hunt(1981)

Combined Rating:
18
Combined Critics Rating: 5

In 1931 Canada, Yukon trapper Johnson has a feud with a dog owner who later retaliates by publicly accusing Johnson of murder and thus triggering a police manhunt in the wilderness.



La chèvre(1981)

Combined Rating:
16
Combined Critics Rating: 0

When the accident-prone daughter of a French businessman disappears in Mexico and the detective sent down to find her returns empty-handed, the businessman's company psychologist comes up ...



Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco(1981)

Combined Rating:
14
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with little crimes, prostitution, etc



Enter the Ninja(1981)

Combined Rating:
13
Combined Critics Rating: 4

After just completing his training at a ninja school, an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also ...



Coup de torchon(1981)

Combined Rating:
12
Combined Critics Rating: 0

1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his...



Eyewitness(1981)

Combined Rating:
11
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Eccentric Vietnam War vet turned janitor claims to have witnessed a murder of a man tied to international political underground in order to get the attention of a TV reporter he has a huge crush on. The cops suspect his loser best friend.




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